01 Jun Discussion on Documentary Essay | Online
1
Jun
Discussion on Documentary Essay | Online
Meetup - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2022
Wednesday June 1, 2022
6 pm - 9 pm
Wednesday, June 1st from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Guests | Emma Roufs, Matthew Wolkow and Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Moderator | Félix Lamarche
Free upon registration
Main Film invites you to an open discussion on the documentary essay. This meeting, moderated by Félix Lamarche, is a privileged opportunity to discover the filmmakers Emma Roufs, Matthew Wolkow and Maxime Jean-Baptiste. The discussion will focus on their practice, vision and creative process as it relates to the development of documentary essay works. This event is a must if you want to learn more about this artistic practice!
For more information, please write to : services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Emma Roufs
While experimenting with both analog and digital technology, Emma Roufs is a canadian (quebecois) filmmaker who’s particularly interested in film-journal aesthetics and themes related to memory. Emma is a member and administrator of VISIONS, and co-founder of ‘la lumière collective’, two entities based in Montreal, Canada, dedicated to screening and shining a light onto experimental film practices and their makers. Her films are distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo and have been shown in various festivals and cinema spaces around the world. Her first essay documentary ATALAYA (2021) was presented internationally and won awards at Cinema on the Bayou film festival (USA) and at Vues du Québec – Festival de cinéma de Florac (France).
Matthew Wolkow
Animated with a curiosity for new knowledge, Matthew Wolkow creates a cinema revealing the persons he meets and the stories that come along. Situated between essay and experimentation, rubbing the real, the imaginary, speech, words and sensorialities, his work beneficiates from this hybridity where form is approached as a resolution. In October 2021, the Cinémathèque québécoise screened his first retrospective.
Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Born in 1993 in a Guyanese-Caribbean family, Maxime Jean-Baptiste is a director. He lives in Brussels, where he teaches at the erg. In his films, he maintains a relationship with the image close to choreography. He often uses found footage that he projects back and forth, revealing the materiality of the reel and the making of the story. In one of his first films, he uses excerpts from Jean Galmot aventurier (1990), a film about the history of French Guyana in which his father was an extra.
Moderator : Félix Lamarche
Félix Lamarche is an independent filmmaker exploring the possibilities of documentary practice. In 2017, he directed and produced his first feature film, Les terres lointaines, winner of the Pierre and Yolande Perrault Award. In subsequent years, he shot and produced several short films including La frontière (2017), Terres fantômes (2019), Un fleuve l’hiver (2020) and Le chant de la nuit (2022). In his current projects, he is interested in inserting a resolutely subjective vision within a cinema nourished by the different facets of reality.